Hello,
I found on Centos7, memory utilization is above 90% still swap is 0 mb in use.
[xxx@z ~]$ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7682 1457 151 155 6073 5772
Swap: 7935 0 7935
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Hi there,
The important measure is the available which in your case is 5772MB. So nearly 75% of your memory is available.
Only if your available memory is full, only then the system will start writing to the swap.
Also very important side note, I would really not advisable having such a huge swap file, as if the system starts storing so much information in swap it could really slow things down.
Regards, Bobby
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